Nicola: 1726 books
Con Ovidio
La felicità di leggere un classico
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Ovidio è tra i classici più amati e più fortunati dell’antichità, e il suo astro non ha mai conosciuto eclissi. Autore di un’opera influentissima come le Metamorfosi, è teorico del gioco amoroso, inventore dell’epistola sentimentale, maestro insuperato di stile. Ma con la sua parabola biografica...
by Nicola Lacey
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Nicola Lacey presents a new approach to the question of the moral justification of punishment by the State. She focuses on the theory of punishments in context of other political questions, such as the nature of political obligation and the function and scope of criminal law. Arguing that no convincing...
Over the Rainbow
Money, Class and Homophobia
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
First published in 1995, Nicola Field’s Over the Rainbow confronts the political contradictions in the LGBT+ movement and contains one of the earliest first-hand accounts from the frontlines of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, featured in the hit film Pride. Written at a time when LGBT+ people...
by K.C. Nicola
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
When Nick's friend Kyllian lost his humanity, he didn't know what to do - after all, how does one cope with a friend no longer being human? However, the events of a single night may have the power to seal both of their fates.
Shift to the Future
Rethinking Learning with New Technologies in Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2006
New technologies are dramatically changing the face of education and the nature of childhood itself. In Shift to the Future, Nicola Yelland examines the ways in which these technologies are reshaping the social, personal, and educational experiences of childhood, and explores the curricular revisions...
Principles of Neuromusculoskeletal Treatment and Management E-Book
A Handbook for Therapists
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Fully updated and revised for a second edition, this textbook offers a comprehensive, evidence-based guide to the treatment and management of the neuromusculoskeletal system, providing vital support for both students and experienced therapists. As with the previous edition the text deals with function...
Diophantine Analysis
Course Notes from a Summer School
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
This collection of course notes from a number theory summer school focus on aspects of Diophantine Analysis, addressed to Master and doctoral students as well as everyone who wants to learn the subject. The topics range from Baker’s method of bounding linear forms in logarithms (authored by Sanda...
by Nicola Naylor
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Many would balk at the idea of a white woman traveling India alone-and in particular, a blind woman. Throughout her childhood Nicola Naylor had been fascinated by images of the subcontinent and was determined both to realize her dream of visiting and to push back the stifling constraints imposed by...
Between Skins
The Body in Psychoanalysis - Contemporary Developments
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Between Skins challenges individualistic accounts of the body in psychoanalysis. Drawing on philosophy, contemporary neurobiology and developmental research, Nicola Diamond explores the ways in which bodily processes and skin experience are inseparable from the field of language and environmental...
Current Challenges in Stability Issues for Numerical Differential Equations
Cetraro, Italy 2011, Editors: Luca Dieci, Nicola Guglielmi
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
This volume addresses some of the research areas in the general field of stability studies for differential equations, with emphasis on issues of concern for numerical studies.
Topics considered include: (i) the long time integration of Hamiltonian Ordinary DEs and highly oscillatory systems,...
by Nicola Slee
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
“Of all the women in the Bible,” writes Nicola Slee, “Mary has been for me the most ambivalent, the most alien and yet, at some level, the most alluring. I’ve taken a long time to come to her—or for her to come to me. I grew up in a religious tradition—low church Methodism—in which Mary...
Leisure and Tourism Landscapes
Social and Cultural Geographies
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Increasingly significant as mediators of spatial identity and meaning, leisure, tourism, culture and heritage are only now beginning to be located within the rapidly evolving discourses of poststructuralist geographies.
Exploring the influence of leisure and tourism on the production, representation...
by Nicola Vallera
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2017
Scientists work at a time machine using avatars thanks to an interaction photons-matter. A scientist is keen on traveling into her past, but something goes wrong, and she gets trapped in 1977. She is in a pickle and struggles to find a way out.
In Search of Criminal Responsibility
Ideas, Interests, and Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
What makes someone responsible for a crime and therefore liable to punishment under the criminal law? Modern lawyers will quickly and easily point to the criminal law's requirement of concurrent actus reus and mens rea, doctrines of the criminal law which ensure that someone will only be found criminally...